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Wellness Brand Moon Juice Has Plenty of Haters -- and Its Founder Is Cool With ThatAmanda Chantal Bacon is used to seeing eyes roll when she talks about her products. (Sex Dust, as an example.) But when business is booming, who has time to care?

ByLiz Brody

This story appears in theMarch 2019issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

Courtesy of Moon Juice

A January chilltunnels through the streets of Manhattan as Amanda Chantal Bacon walks into ABC Kitchen early for lunch with investors, shaking off Los Angeles jet lag and her most recent troll. Before she got on the plane, the 35-year-old founder of Moon Juice says, she spotted a comment on the companyInstagram: "This person was cursing, "I don't like your content anymore. I used to buy you; now I don't. Get yourshittogether, Amanda Chantal Bacon.' "

She's thinking about it still, but she's not stuck on it. Bacon is, in the booming parallel universe of alternative medicine–slash-wellness that's been defined by Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop, one of the most visible stars outside of Paltrow herself. And she has other things on her mind.投资者to check in with. Stores to visit. Plus, she volunteers, "My boobs are fantastic!" (She's a radiant four months pregnant.)

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